Jethro Tull - "Reflections Through The Glass Chandelier-UPGRADE"

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, California
January 16, 1977

Source: Excellent Audience Recording (unknown gen and taper)
CDrs (Mitsui) > EAC(secure) > WAV > Edits > FLAC

These where my CDrs of this bootleg that I got thru either a trade or the Talk Tull Tree. One
of two known bootlegs.

Total time main show [117:32]

01 - Terry Ellis Intro [0:51]
02 - Quartet [2:53]
03 - Wond'ring Aloud [2:30]
04 - Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day [3:39]
05 - Jack-in-the-Green [3:45]
06 - Thick As A Brick [14:04]
07 - Songs From The Wood [6:22]
08 - Instrumental-Drum Solo [3:12]
09 - To Cry You A Song [2:31]
10 - A New Day Yesterday > Flute Solo (incl GRYMG/Bouree) [9:09]
11 - Living In The Past > TaaB > ANDY (reprise) > Intermission [3:35]
12 - Velvet Green [6:57]

13 - Hunting Girl [6:45]
14 - Too Old To Rock'N'Roll [5:47]
15 - Beethoven's 9th Symphony [3:04]
16 - Minstrel In The Gallery [5:41]
17 - Cross-Eyed Mary [3:47]
18 - Aqualung [8:04]
19 - Guitar Solo [3:26]
20 - Wind-Up [4:50]
21 - Back-Door Angels > Wind-Up (reprise) [7:37]
22 - Locomotive Breath > Hard-Headed English General > Back-Door Angels (reprise) [9:03]
23 - Ian Sept 1977 Interview Australian TV [6:08]

NOTES-
Again "I think" it was taped by Mike "the Mic" Millard (RIP). I've never seen an actual source for this
tape and if someone knows for sure, please advise. It's another great audience tape. It sure sounds like
another MIKE THE MIC!!!!!

This one sounds a little generated also, some hiss as well but I would imagine it is not far removed from
the master. I've only seen two diff boots of this show and I've never heard the other one so I can only
assume this is the best source available right now. This one has also been out there for a long time and
very likely from an LP bootleg.

Ian was in fine form again tonight and this is a really high quality show in terms of sound and performance.
As I mentioned, this setlist was already re-worked slightly and I like the order better, however I would have
never dropped Fire At Midnight or Crazed but Ian probably felt the show didn't get moving along fast enough. Oh
well. I found a short interview from Sept 1977 of an Australian TV broadcast that I tacked on here - must be from
the time they were on a short tour there.

EDITS-
Since I have not seen this show posted anywhere recently (at all frankly), I'm not worried about any
confusion with the original. I expect this to live on the trackers for a while since its a steller gig!
This is a moderate upgrade from the original and the "cleanup" alone makes it worth a download IMO.

1. I cleaned the various dead spaces, cuts and drops -> the small cut in ANDY is a smoother transition
now -> some song endings where cut during the later part of the show, those are smoothed out too ->
there were a few spots of noticable digital clicks/errors that were present in my CDs so I think they were
part of the original source or transfer, not sure. I removed those nearly completely. The clapping sounds
LIKE digital noise so don't be alarmed with that...its really wild how clear the claps are...and there is
no point trying to remove or diminish them so I did not...

2. The Terry Ellis intro needed a volume boost so I added about 3-4 dbs to it. The majority of tracks
10 & 11 were "muffled" - maybe tape age or someone in front of mics? From the beginning of track 10 to
about the midde of track 11. To "fix" that, I just bumped the volume up about 3dbs which seemed to help
greatly - the wav file definately looked like it was lower than the rest of the show and it surely sounded
that way.

3. I re-tracked songs 10-12 and 16-22, they were off and the splits not done very well. There is so much
banter in the show, I left it mostly as is was from the original CD boot otherwise.

4. The sound changed after Aqualung thru the remaining part of the show, a bit louder and brighter and a
lot more hiss. I actually think this part of the show is a diff generation maybe or there was NO noise reduction
used on it - when u compare to the rest of the show prior, its sounds like that part could have had noise
reduction applied in the original transfer - who knows. I listened to this part a lot and came to the conclusion
that it also ran slightly fast. I did the following to this section only -> ran hiss reduction which helped greatly
but it didn't change the fidelity -> slowed it down by 3% -> applied some minor EQ (low end bump and a small cut to
the mids) - this got the sound a litte closer to the rest of the show but it still sounds noticably different, not
worse, just diff. I didn't want to do too much here so I erred on the side of caution.

If you are burning to CDr, start disc 2 with track 13 (there is a tight fade at that point).

Spread the love if you like - please just keep info and file set intact.

Upped by ninjadave - Sept 2017